Sublime

Such a guru is more likely to influence you to meditate and practice, to lead you onto the path of liberation and not sidetrack you by encouraging you to be a “good person” with vegetarianism, environmentalism, simple living, relaxation techniques, mindfulness, ahimsa (nonviolence), and

Often the best remedy of all is to worship an ishta devata, a personal deity, which is the remedy jyotishis themselves use to keep from being affected by the grahas in their work.

if one carefully studies the various books, both in prose and poetry (such as Śrī Ramaṇa Gītā, Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, Day by Day with Bhagavan and Maharshi’s Gospel), which record the conversations of devotees with Bhagavan.

without accepting the guru as your projection, it’s not advisable to take tantric teachings.

Parvati stands there unmoving, deep in meditation on the mantra, “Om namah shivaya.”

Coupled with pure perception, guru devotion has nothing to do with being a sycophant. It’s really about exercising your own perception.

In other words, Īśvara is all-knowing and is knowledge itself.

quotes the verses from the Gītā where Kṛṣṇa says: “Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you give away, whatever austerity you perform, do it as an offering to me”